Is this what you call the Jewish avant-garde?
Bernstein’s writing is intoxicating
Rae Armantrout: “Paragraph,”
“Soft Money,” “Outage”
Talking with Bruce Andrews
A video of Hissa Hilal
A profile of Hilal
A bright light for women’s rights
With + Stand 4: The Lisa Robertson Issue
Gary Sullivan on Lynn Behrendt,
Nada Gordon on Vanessa Place
A recording of Lynn Behrendt & Vanessa Place
at the Bowery Poetry Club
Geof Huth on Behrendt & Place
Harryette Mullen wins the Jackson Prize
Fanny Howe reading at the Bowery Poetry Club,
April 3
Ben Friedlander, also reading at the BPC on April 3
Talking with Alan Halsey
“Thingness”
The magical awkwardness of Joe Ceravolo
WILLA:
Women in Letters & Literary Arts
Talking with Erin Belieu & Cate Marvin
A gender breakdown of
literary editors’
2009 “bests” lists
On Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Due dates vs. deadlines
Stephen Burt on the poetics of motherhood
Swede Dreams:
Daniel Burnbaum on OEI
Alice Jones’ “Vault,” “Idyll”
On Lucille Clifton:
Evie Shockley, Sharon Mesmer,
Mairéad Byrne, Mendi Lewis Obadike,
Theresa Senato Edwards, Julie Phillips Brown,
Cara Benson, Tara Betts, Kazim Ali,
Shanna Compton, Deborah Poe,
Naomi Shihab Nye, Aimee Nezhukumatathil,
GE Patterson & Alicia Ostriker
Clifton’s Voices
Luce Irigaray:
This Sex Which is Not One
Peter O’Leary on Robert Duncan’s
The Origin of Old Son
“Flarf is snooty”
Thom Donovan on CA Conrad
Philly’s next “flash reading”
is of the work of George Oppen,
April 11
Nominate the 2010
Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere!
Inspiration is key for Bill Corbett!
Craig Morgan Teicher on Bin Ramke’s
Theory of Mind: New & Selected Poems
First 100 days, best 100 days?
Downloadable walking tours
focused on poetry
for Chicago & DC
Cathy Park Hong:
“Ballad in A,” “Our Jim”
Source Material: A Journal of Appropriated Text
(a big zip file of a PDF that is not made much smaller
for having been compressed)
Margaret Atwood on Twitter
Ed Sanders in the Wall Street Journal
(neither a typo nor an hallucination)
James Wagner’s one-paragraph reviews:
Ange Mlinko’s Shoulder Season
Sarah O’Brien’s Catch Light
Ange Mlinko’s “Squill”
Talking with Eiríkur Örn Norđdahl
Michael McClure’s
Mysteriosos, and Other Poems
2 books by Dan Beachy-Quick
The “most representative poets”
of the 20th & 21st centuries:
Gregory Corso & Barbara Guest
7 Philadelphia-area poets to savor
14 poems read by these 7 poets
Daisy Fried
heads up Litapalooza
at Penn State Brandywine,
April 6
Another big AWP reading this Friday
Dodie Bellamy, Kevin Killian, Eileen Myles
Friday night @ CUNY
Talking with Paul Siegell
The most widely spoken language in the world:
Globish
You could vote for
Neil Gaiman, Patti Smith, Banksy, Mary Karr or Dave Eggers
for Time magazine’s list of the “100 most influential people of 2010”
or you could just be flat out appalled
at the 200 “finalists” you are given to chose from…
Dusie Pussipo Stonecoast Femiganza
in Denver, April 7
This year’s edible books
One more reason I do not drink
How Portsmouth became a literary haven
Against the memoir
May 3 & 4 @ CUNY,
The Annual Chapbook Festival
Devin Johnston:
“Static,” ‘Thin Place”
Joel Oppenheimer’s “The Dancer,”
illustrated by Robert Rauschenberg,
published by Jonathan Williams
Andrew Joron, Rachel Loden, C.S. Giscombe
at the de Young in SF, April 23
George Quasha:
Preverbs & axial poetics
Mendelsohn’s Cafavy
Literary Tees
The poetry of Black Bart
Jail not Yale
What’s on your bedside table?
Beltway Poetry Quarterly’s new issue
celebrates DC’s many literary organizations
Matthew Dickman’s “Fire”
Donald Revell:
“Homage to John Frederick Peto”
Timothy Green’s American Fractal
Amérique, une révolution poétique,
with Olivier Brossard, Yves Di Manno,
Auxeméry & Christophe Lamiot Enos,
Saturday, April 10, Paris
The poetry & poetics of Kitasono Katue
Simone White’s House Envy of All the World
Talking with January Gill O’Neill
O’Neill’s Underlife
W2010
“A Woodstock of the mind”
Emily Warn: “The Word”
Talking with Marcela Sulak
C.J. Laity on Gurlesque
On the Squirrelesque
No Boundaries: Prose Poems by 24 American Poets
Norris Church Mailer:
A Ticket to the Circus
Siri Hustvedt is The Shaking Woman
4 books by Bay Area poets
5 collections by major Quietists
21 poets recommend recent favorites
Strangest Robert Creeley reference
that I’ve seen in some time
Ron Padgett into French
Matvei Yankelevich’s Boris by the Sea
Mark Haddon talking with Paul Farley
A profile of Mark Haddon
Jim Murdoch’s “Lonely City”
Talking with Shelley Puhak
A longer Puhak interview
Heretical Texts fest in Philly, April 10
with Allison Cobb, Kate Schapira,
Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Simone White,
CA Conrad & Franks
Talking with Ned Balbo
Gary Snyder in action in Acton
A profile of Charles Plymell
The man who hoards
The Best Canadian Poetry
(in English)
11 ways to celebrate National Poultry Month
A 12th way would be to peruse a month’s worth
of tattoed poets on Tatoosday
with accompanying poems on
Bill Cohen’s BillyBlog
Your quintessential “national poetry month” article
Another that focuses on the poet laureate program
A day that poetry mattered
Penn’s book store is also doing
a poem a day online this month
April is also
International Pwoermd Writing Month,
devoted of course to writing
“words” that are themselves poems,
e.g. Mark Young’s fruitful
ne(tar)ine
William Blake
hiding in the tangerines
Taking with T.J. Beitelman
Writing novels – it’s all in the planning
Talking with Kate Durbin
Durbin’s The Ravenous Audience
Talking with Marie Ponsot & Ed Hirsch
Edward Hirsch is ripe
Jonathan Galassi on Jenny Holzer
Elizabeth Bishop & The New Yorker
Talking with Louise Glück
Talking with Kimiko Hahn
David Foster Wallace:
“Updike…has never had an unpublished thought”
Roth’s fake interviews
Arguments for the Lost Man Booker Prize
Literary ladies of the Beijing subway
Spencer Reece, “Gilgamesh”
Talking with Robert Fanning
Fanning’s American Prophet
Talking with David Rigsbee
Tina Chang doesn’t do lofty
Poetry as a science
Criticism is always dying
The Herb Vandecker story
Paper Before Print:
The History and Impact of Paper
in the Islamic World
Some prize-winning book designs
Multiple futures of the book
E-book pricing model is changing
in fits & starts
Amazon, B&N surrender control of pricing
Brit publishers howl over Amazon demand
that no website be allowed to undersell them
Why does Congress
want me to shun my local bookstore
& shop online instead?
Bookstore décor made from old books
The death of a bookstore
that opened with great backing
less than one year ago
R.I.P. Big Jar Books
Boston Library opens the kimono on branch use
Does Wikipedia suck?
How green is an iPad? Or a book?
E-readers & eye strain (duh)
E-book royalties are the next battle line
From free books to e-books:
publishers struggle with going digital
Self-censorship hurts communications research
Harpers Studio closes up shop
The Great West Coast Newspaper War
Talking with Anna Halprin
Politics of the soundtrack
“the first guitar hero”
Chinese nix Dylan tour
Chris Smither
has the Global Financial Crisis blues
(but it don’t say if he’s playing the blue guitar)
Acoustic shadows
Farrah Field on Laura Marling
Peter Brook puts Shakespeare’s Sonnets on stage
A sculpture of Charlie Parker
Alfred Molina as Mark Rothko in Red
Rothko is back
& superb
John Gallaher on liking vs. discerning in Red
Sondheim = Shakespeare?
Thriving on the “Who wrote Shakespeare” scam
The most hated film-maker in America
Anish Kapoor’s new tower of London
Nancy Spero:
The Torture of Women
The Turbulence Project capsizes
Saatchi vs. Banksy
Jack Goldstein
& the CalArts Mafia
A bronze statue, taller than Liberty,
in the nation of Senegal
The art of the brick
Lego, already
Welcome to Marwencol
Recession forces art world to get creative
PaceWildenstein breaks apart
Art maps
A new Pompidou
Is Art History Global?
An online art book: The Mural in America
A second look at Roman Vishniac
Displaced arts journalists strike back
The Arts Desk
Don’t Piss on Me & Tell Me It’s Raining
The meaning of a “bad Koons”
The Top 30 exhibitions of 2009
David Slivka has died
Ronald Clyne’s covers for Folkways Records
The AP obit on Ed Roberts
Terry Teachout tackles
“10 books that influenced my thinking” meme
(Edwin Denby, Fairfield Porter & novels
by New Critics…)
Defending the humanities
The crisis of philosophy
